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History of Ashford
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Travelling Towards War
Travelling Towards War provides a small window on events in pre-war central Europe. It focuses on the journal and recently discovered correspondence of John Ashford – a Norfolk Quaker and fruit-grower – who made two short but memorable journeys in 1938 and 1939 to visit isolated groups of German, Austrian and Czech Quakers and the Quaker international teams besieged with people desperate to escape persecution. John travelled coolly across frontiers as the likelihood of war grew. In early 1938, he was in Vienna as Austria tried to stave off annexation, and in Prague as tensions between Czechoslovakia and Germany mounted. In 1939, he was in Berlin only months after the Munich crisis and th...
Dusty Land: Stories of Two Teachers in the Kalahari
IT WAS WITH GREAT RELIEF that John Ashford realized he was going to do something new in his life. In his mid-fifties and happily married to his second wife, Gen, John wanted to feel as passionate about work and life as he had felt when he started teaching thirty years earlier. With some convincing, and a short stint volunteering with him in a refugee camp in Thailand, Gen agreed to be John's fellow adventurer, join the Peace Corps, and serve in Botswana in southern Africa. Once in Botswana, John began taking notes about his "new" life with an inkling that he would publish a book about his experiences. He kept a journal of conversations, cultural differences, people and their idiosyncrasies, ...
London; Past, Present and Future
Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. Our readers see the books the same way that their first readers did decades or a hundred or more years ago. Books from that period are often spoiled by imperfections that did not exist in the original. Imperfections could be in the form of blurred text, ...
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